Laboratory methods are used to evaluate the effects of institutional arrangements and rent-defending activity on rent-seeking auction outcomes. In part, Nash equilibrium predictions are a useful behavioral guide: As predicted, more rents are dissipated in perfectly-discriminating auctions, where...

This article replicates and “stress tests†a recent finding by Eckel and Grossman (2003) that matching subsidies generate substantially higher Charity Receipts than theoretically comparable rebate subsidies. In a first replication treatment, we show that most choices are consist with a...

This paper reports an experiment designed to assess the effects of a rotation in the marginal cost curve on convergence in a repeated Cournot triopoly. Increasing the cost curve's slope both reduces the serially-undominated set to the Nash prediction, and increases the peakedness of earnings. We...

Revenue from the saints, the showoffs and the predators : comparisons of auctions with price-preference values / Timothy C. Salmon, R. Mark Isaac -- Multiple public goods and lottery fund raising / Robert Moir -- The impact of social comparisons on nonprofit fund raising / Jen Shang, Rachel...